39 Cluny Gardens, Edinburgh

This is a two-storey and attic, six-bay double villa, likely designed by Alexander MacNaughton and possibly dating from 1893. It is accompanied by a single-storey and attic service wing and a basement to the rear. The building is constructed from cream-coloured sandstone, with squared and snecked rubble and polished dressings to the front elevation. A moulded string course runs above the ground floor, and there is an eaves cornice. Window reveals are chamfered, with panelled aprons below the first-floor canted windows. The corniced stacks feature a pulvinated frieze.

The south (front) elevation is symmetrical, with three bays mirroring each other around a central axis. Pilastered doorways are located in the centre bays, each topped with a rectangular plate glass fanlight, a semi-circular open pediment containing an urn, a panelled door, and a tiled vestibule. A small corniced window sits above the doorway on the first floor. The outer gabled bays have two-storey canted windows with panelled aprons at first-floor level, topped with parapets bearing pedimented tablets. These tablets have a small, moulded panel with fluted pilasters, a shaped apron, and a semi-circular scrolled pediment in the gablehead. The inner bays have pedimented windows on the ground floor, and single windows with projecting sills on the first. The roof has two pedimented bipartite timber dormers. Single-storey detached garages are provided for each house.

The north (rear) elevation is two-storey and includes a basement. It is three bays wide, with a two-storey service wing featuring a mansard roof and a shaped pedimented gable in the centre bays. The main block has a shouldered and corniced wallhead and a mutual gable stack. Windows include tall, cross timber stair windows with border glazing, square leaded panes, and stained glass roundels. Bipartite timber dormers with segmental-arched pediments flank the central wallhead stack. A single-storey addition was constructed to the right around 1893.

The east and west elevations each have two single windows on the ground and first floors of the central bay, with a shouldered wallhead stack above. Windows are timber sash and case, with mostly plate glass glazing to the front and four-pane windows to the rear. The roof is slate with lead flashings, and includes three wallhead stacks and one central transverse stack. Moulded ashlar skews have scalloped or gabletted skewputts, while moulded eaves gutters and gutterheads are also present.

The interior was not inspected in 1992.

A tall rubble wall with semi-circular coping bounds the rear and sides, while a low, stepped rubble wall with saddleback coping defines the front.